Okay, so time for a bit of a confession. I’m cheating on the setting this year. I’m using a real place and an actual time for this all to take place this year. Yes, I know, it’s not really cheating, but it feels like it to me. I usually make up a new setting and set it in an ambient time somewhere, but this time around, it’s set in a place and time I know.
The time is 2004. It’s the start of the school year and, if I remember rightly, a very pivotal fall for a certain university campus. SFU Surrey finally got the funding to move into a brand new campus now floating above the mall, looking down on the patrons instead of hiding away in a corner from them. The campus was supposed to be an architectural wonder, but the students shifting to the new system was a little more important on the level of our characters.
Methinks I’m going to have to avoid a little bit of soap boxing while I’m writing this year. Or maybe go with it, since it will do awesome for my word count.
The old Betaspace was left behind, looked back with different opinions by different people. The older the student it seemed, the more they missed the little hole in the wall. The younger, the more they were looking forward to the new, huge campus. Or so I remember it.
Betaspace, however, has not been forgotten in this story. It still plays quite a big part, even if the vast majority of the characters are first year and have never been. Terrible, horrible things await them there.
Er… I mean…
Candy. Candy and cake await them. Yes.
Tags: notes, novel, raven project, setting, story, writing
Candy…wasn’t she involved in orientation a lot?
I think 2005 or the start of 2006 was the first year the one new lecture hall was used and we didn’t move into the new campus until 2006, but it’s fiction so who cares!
2006 it is! I was never very good with dates.
2005 was the first year we used that giant lecture hall! I remember I had math in there. By 2006 they shang hai’d everyone to the new campus.